

> あそこだったら、地下鉄で行くといいよ。 **千里** で乗り換えて、 **西千里** で降りればいいんじゃない。

For context, the person here is answering a question where someone asks how to
get to 芸術センター.

Are 千里 and 西千里 proper nouns naming the stations, or is
<http://jisho.org/word/%E5%8D%83%E9%87%8C> meant here? 西千里 seems to be a
composition of 西 and 千里, but I can't make sense of it. And just to make sure
that I got the basic meaning of the sentence right, in the second sentence the
speaker basically says that it should be okay if it is required to change
trains once before arriving at the destination/ultimately exiting the subway?


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Meanings of 千里 and 西千里


千里｛ちさと｝is in this case the name of station and is thus different to the unit
of measurement 千里｛せんり｝ (one thousand ri). See here:
<https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%83%E9%87%8C%E9%A7%85_%28%E6%9B%96%E6%98%A7%E3%81%95%E5%9B%9E%E9%81%BF%29>


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In Osaka there are several stations having [千里]{せんり} in their names. For
instance
[北千里駅{きたせんりえき}](https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E5%8D%83%E9%87%8C%E9%A7%85),
[南千里駅{みなみせんりえき}](https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E5%8D%83%E9%87%8C%E9%A7%85).

What I understand from the second sentence is that the speaker thinks that
[西千里]{にしせんり} station is the nearest station from the destination (あそこ) and
that to get to 西千里 it is simplest to change trains at [千里]{せんり}.


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